By EPA Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) hailed the inclusion of several important committee public health initiatives in the recently released year-end spending package. In addition to the public health measures, the package also includes committee priorities to...
By EPA Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA), and Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY) today sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy seeking information regarding the use of social media platforms by EPA to promote the agency’s climate rules.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives is poised to pass legislation for the third time this year to lift the 40-year-old ban on crude oil exports. The measure is included in this year’s budget deal that will be considered by the House and Senate later this week. Lifting the ban has been a priority...
By EPA Newswire | Dec 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce and Small Business Committee leaders today expressed disappointment following the Federal Communications Commission’s decision to forgo permanent protection of small businesses from heightened disclosure requirements included in the commission’s open Internet order.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) hailed the inclusion of permanent reauthorization of the World Trade Center Health Fund in the year-end budget deal. The House of Representatives will vote later this week on the bill to fund government operations. Upton and the Energy and Commerce Committee worked toward the deal to permanently extend the important program.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) hailed the funding boost for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) included in the recently released year-end spending package. The measure includes a $2 billion funding boost for NIH and a $133 million increase for FDA...
By EPA Newswire | Dec 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) confirmed that more must be done at the federal level to strengthen our nation’s communications networks to ensure that they are reliable during times of crisis. The report, which specifically reviewed the resiliency of emerging...
By EPA Newswire | Dec 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Environment and the Economy Ranking Member Paul Tonko (D-NY) applauded President Obama for signing S. 611, the Grassroots Rural and Small Community Water Systems Assistance Act, into law. This legislation helps to...
By EPA Newswire | Dec 15, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - President Obama has signed into law, S. 611, the Grassroots Rural and Small Community Water Systems Assistance Act - companion legislation to H.R. 2853, a bill introduced by Environment and the Economy Subcommittee Vice Chairman Gregg Harper (R-MS) and Ranking Minority member Paul Tonko...
By EPA Newswire | Dec 12, 2015
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement applauding the landmark climate change deal reached in Paris today at the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties (COP21):
By EPA Newswire | Dec 11, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - In an effort to break the Obama administration’s stonewall on providing information about its unlawful payments to insurance companies, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) recently wrote to Secretary...
By EPA Newswire | Dec 10, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) today commented on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s fine of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles for not reporting safety data required under the TREAD Act.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 9, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX), Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Peter Roskam (R-IL), House Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), and Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA) sent a letter to the Acting Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Andrew Slavitt.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 9, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joseph Pitts (R-PA), today held a legislative hearing entitled, “Examining Legislation to Improve Health Care and Treatment." The subcommittee considered six bipartisan bills to address shortcomings in current law and work to reauthorize an important nursing training program.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) today welcomed the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s enhancements to the 5-Star Crash Safety Ratings System.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) confirmed that, in the face of global climate change, more can be done in the United States to share useful climate data so that leaders at the federal, state, and local level, as well as those in the private sector, can better prepare for future extreme weather events and prevent billions of dollars in damages.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today continued examining Obamacare’s state insurance marketplaces. The hearing was Part II of a two-part series - Part I looked at the individual state marketplaces, Part II examined the role being played by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
By EPA Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. House of Representatives today unanimously approved the Microbead-Free Waters Act of 2015, which was introduced by Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) earlier this year. The bipartisan legislation would begin the phase out of plastic microbeads from personal care products on July 1, 2017.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - As part of ongoing bicameral collaboration to protect Medicaid services for the most vulnerable, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT) today sent a letter to Andy Slavitt, Acting Administrator of the Centers...
By EPA Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. House of Representatives today unanimously approved the Microbead-Free Waters Act of 2015, which was introduced by Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) earlier this year. The bipartisan legislation would begin the phase out of plastic microbeads from personal care products on July 1, 2017.
